WEST GERMANY: Faded Dignity

Konrad Adenauer's troubles might have
ended had he been content to let them die down. Instead, he went out of
the way to continue his feuding in a succession of interviews in the
foreign press. To a Scripps-Howard reporter, he patronized U.S.
Secretary of State Christian Herter's performance at Geneva ("Dulles
would have patched up [the Allied rifts] quicker"), opined that
Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan must be persuaded that "when
one belongs to an alliance, he must give up some views of his own." But
he reserved the roughest treatment of...